Re: [IPFIX] DRAFT minutes for IPFIX meeting in Orlando

[Nevil Brownlee <[e-mail]>]

Hi Paul:

Responses inline ...

On 1/04/13 10:45 PM, Paul Aitken wrote:
> Nevil,
>
> Two points inline, everything else snipped:
>
>
>> + Mechanisms for moving Private Enterprise IEs into the IANA
>>   IPFIX IE Registry, so that Collectors can recognise them
>>   more easily.
>
> My understanding is that this registry would be outside of IANA.
>
> I strongly oppose pushing private enterprise information into a
> standards body's registry. They already maintain a perfectly good
> standards-based registry.

Agreed.  That bullet point is from my one-para summary of the meeting.
The topic it summarises was the transitioning of a PE IE to a standard
IE, and how we make that work.

>> These will be discussed further on the IPFIX list.
>
> If we're considering new work items, please don't forget
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aitken-ipfix-unobserved-fields-01
>
> It has expired simply because there's nothing new to be said. However,
> the work is desperately needed. Due to the lack of standardisation,
> cisco is already using several of these techniques to indicate
> unavailable and/or unobserved fields.

Again, I agree.  However, the minutes record what happened in one
particular meeting, I don't recall it actually being discussed.

The time to raise this will be when we actually consider possible new
work - once we get close to finishing the current charter items.

Cheers, Nevil

> Thanks,
> P.

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